Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 84

A few neighbours also came out, and helped each other to draw the boats higher up on the beach.

Who acts: few neighbours, each, boats · What happens: come out, help, draw, higher up · To what, where: each, beach

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few neighbours, each, boats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 neighbours	amod
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 helped	cc
9	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 helped	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	to	to	PART	_	13 draw	mark
13	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helped	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boats	det
15	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 higher	nsubj
16	higher	higher	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 draw	ccomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 higher	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 beach	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beach	det
20	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 higher	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	a few neighbours			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	help	past	a few neighbours not said here	each			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	draw	to-infinitive	each not said here				tree rules
4	higher up	present	the boats		the beach		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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